nazi culture Vs weimar ulture

• NAZI CULTURE


  • Drugs were made illegal
  • Nightclubs were shut down
  • Art focused on the family or heroic German figures
  • Pro-war
  • Non-German music was banned
• WEIMAR CULTURE


  • Nightclubs (cabaret clubs) became popular in Berlin
  • Berlin was the centre of modern art
  • The best selling book was 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (anti-war)
  • Berlin was the centre of the movie industry
  • Bauhaus developed a new type of modern architecture
• Gustav Stresemann


  • The Dawes Plan ($800 million)
  • The Young Plan (20%)
  • The Locarno Treaty 1925
  • The League of Nations 1926
• The Weimar Golden Years 1924-1929
• The Elizabethan Golden Years
• Backlash against Weimar culture


  • The majority of Germans saw what was happening in Berlin as decadent and un-German
  • Drug taking was common amongst the artists/poets/movie stars/nightclub goers in Berlin
  • The world's first gay club opened in Berlin in the 1920s
  • At the cabaret clubs there were often 'drag acts', where men dressed as women or vice versa
• Anita Berber


  • An openly gay musician who posed for the artist Otto Dix
  • She was at the centre of Berlin cultural life
  • She died of a cocaine and morphine overdose in 1929
• Nazi architecture


  • Public buildings were built to be intimidating
  • Most were destroyed during WW2
  • The best example is the Olympic Stadium in Berlin
• Nazi housing


  • Family homes were built to look like traditional German cottages
  • The Nazis believed that city culture was corrupt and believed the 'purist' people were peasants
• 'Blood and Soil'


  The Nazis' belief that the 'purist' people were peasants
• In 1937, the Nazis opened a museum of Degenerate Art to showcase how bad modern art was. It was five-times as popular as the museum next door which show cased 'German' art.